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Top Five Christmas Movies

Saturday December 24, 2011

A Christmas Story Die Hard Love Actually Tie: Christmas Vacation / It’s A Wonderful Life Tie: The Ref / Home for the Holidays

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Friday Five: Favorite Christmas Songs

Friday December 25, 2009

Linus and Lucy – Vince Guaraldi Trio It Happened in Sun Valley – Glenn Miller Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Petula Clark Happy X-mas (War Is Over) – John Lennon Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley

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Ten Great Christmas Gifts

Wednesday December 2, 2009

You’ve got a little more than three weeks to finish your Christmas shopping this year. Here are ten great ideas for covering your bases. Your Guy Friend with an iPhone Incase Gun Metal Slider Case This is the absolute best iPhone case on the market. I’ve had mine for about six months now and there’s [...]

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Christmas in November

Tuesday November 13, 2007

On November 4th I entered my local Starbucks and laughed when I saw the entire store was decorated for Christmas. There happened to be a manager and a “barista” working the counter, so I mentioned that it was a bit early for Christmas decorations. The manager replied, as if I was daft, “No it’s not. [...]

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Late Christmas Presents

Wednesday February 22, 2006

A package arrived at my apartment today. It was a box of (late) Christmas presents from my little sister. (She’s not known for promptness.) Each item is fabulous and is listed here in order of fabulousness: an egg-laying rubber chicken – one of the most amazing gifts I’ve ever received Danger Mouse Seasons 1 & [...]

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Gifts

Tuesday December 19, 2000

Wow! I got my second Christmas present today, thanks to the Weblogger Gift Exchange (created by bjb) and Tara @ ratcrap.com. Adcult: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture. It’s a great book! It was written by one of my professors at UF and is an excellent read. Thanks, Tara!

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Underwear

Thursday December 14, 2000

About 200 years ago I used to work at a place called InterLink Paging in Gainesville, FL with a woman named Anita. I worked there for years. During the holiday season, Anita would always talk to me about a song called Walking ‘Round in Women’s Underwear sung to the tune of Walking in a Winter [...]

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Present

Thursday December 14, 2000

A few days ago I received my first Christmas present of the year! It came from an unlikely source, and it is certainly appreciated. It’s a book called Prisoner’s Dilemma by William Poundstone. The book is about game theory and its relevance to nuclear proliferation and the Cold War and it is excellent. I’ve read [...]

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Twelve Days of Blogging

Monday December 11, 2000

The BradLands’ Twelve Days of Blogging will put you in a happy – blogging – holidays – computer-y – yuletide mood. Probably. Or you can read the lyrics to The Christmas Song. John & Yoko wrote my favorite.

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Christmas in July

Monday July 17, 2000

There is something mildly disturbing about the fact that this is still happening. It’s not as disturbing as the very obviously female 300 lb person with a goatee and ponytail I saw smoking a cigarette and eating a twinkee in a wheelchair on the median while driving home from work, but that only happened once. [...]

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